'A gripping, entertaining and finely wrought story to match the best of his films' - Independent on Sunday
(A) triumphant success . . . Alan Parker has created a splendid character, an amiable, amoral rogue whom the reader cannot help rooting for in every episode of his deceitful odyssey. - Daily Mail
'The Sucker's Kiss is a joyous, unapologetic romp through Prohibition America. It's as fast, funny and deft as its likeable narrator, Thomas Moran who, at the tender age of seven, picks his first pocket during the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, and goes on to enjoy a colourful life of crime on the road before realising - as all good picaresque heroes do - that love is what really matters.' Julie Myerson, Harpers and Queen
'Memo to Writers Guild of America and the Screen Actors Guild: Please go on strike more often. Why? Well, while you were picketing and protesting, a director and writer, Alan Parker, decided to write a hell of a novel.' - Frank McCourt
